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If the hope of giving
is to love the living,
the giver risks madness
in the act of giving.Some such lesson I seemed to see
in the faces that surrounded me.Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,
what gift would give them the gift to be gifted? The giver is no less adrift than those who are clamouring for the gift.— from The Giver by James Baldwin
Happy Birthday to James Baldwin ! Photo: 1/30/1963, New York, NY. James Baldwin on his bed in his New York apartment to jot down some notes.
Photograph by Bettmann / Corbis—Guadalupe Rosales (of @veteranas_and_rucas And @map_pointz) http://ift.tt/2uWrspe
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